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The woman moved back in the house today saying that it was too cold in her snow house.
Max 14.8 Min 6.9 1 fox All hands at general duties. Galle at his traps. 1 poor fured fox. I have left out the entry for but nothing of importance happened on that date. Yesterday and today I have cooked corn meal for dog feed. No open water and the land bare of snow. Strong breeze from the East. Cloudy and warm
Max 21.3 Min 14.1 Galle to his traps, but caught nothing. The rest of us at various duties about camp. Blowing a strong breeze from the East. Warm & cloudy. Cooked dog feed
Max 25.5 Min 16.5 1 fox Some time ago Maurer found a walrus carcass about 2 miles west of camp. As we have been out of dog food for three or four days I hitched up the dogs today and brought it home. It was this carcass of a 3/4 grown female and was nearly eaten, excepting the skin, by the foxes & bears. Today Crawford had some trouble with the woman but I was away at the [hike] and do not Know the details, so will leave to Crawfordto set down in his diary. Galle caught one fox. Cut wood and skimmed the walrus. All day it has been sleeting and is very
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warm & cloudy with strong breeze from the East (which seems to be the prevailing wind.) Tomorrow we are going to get things ready for the trapping camp, for we are loosing a great deal of valuable time.
Max 28.4 Min 24.5 Galle to his traps. Nothing in them. The rest of us hauled ice & cut wood and worked on stores for trapping camp. A fox came into camp this evening and was caught & killed by a dog. The seamstress has not eaten anything today and refuses to say a word. The snow on our stormshed is melting and a heavy fall of sleet has been falling all day. Very warm cloudy & light gale from the East
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All ready to start with trapping outfit. Will start early in morning to be at camp site by day break. Galle did not go to traps today. Very warm & sleeting all day. Breeze from South. Cloudy
18} Max 33.0 Min 30.6 Left camp at 6:15 a.m and traveled East for three hours thru heavy soft snow. Maurer, Crawford & G. Reached a small
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20} Max 32.0 Min 22.0 cove where wood seemed to be plentiful so stopped and erected a frame of drift wood for the 8x10 tent. Not having had any sleep the night previous we turned in Early and the Friday we hauled wood and cut blocks for the walls. The snow was poor about camp so blocks had to be cut on the hillside about 200 feet away. At dark it started to blow and snow and we were forced to quit but we had by that time put all the blocks on one side of the house. We finally decided that I should return to the main camp on the next morning the which, I did. During the night of the & one of the dogs (named Snowball) went crazy and became very dangerous, fighting with the other dogs & snaping at the men. He will not eat and continually barks at nothing. There is nothing that I can do as far as I Know, but I have given him two "cascara" pills "for luck". I arrived at camp at 12.30 p.m. and started to load the sled for the return trip tomorrow while we were gone Galle went to his traps but had no luck. On the depar-
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ture of Crawford the native woman nearly went into hysterics and when I arrived today she wanted to go back with me. She said that she wanted Crawford to Marry her and he would not but she wanted to be near him for he might change his mind. I asked her if she came along with us with the intentions of marrying one of us and she replied that she had. She went on to say that "if Crawford would not have her she was willing to marry any one of the rest of us," rather a gloomy statement for us (???). This may all sound funny for the reader but I can assure him or her that it is not funny for the four of us to have a foolish female howling and refusing to work and eating all of our good grub. Heaven only knows what she is liable to do to her self or one of us and to be continually watching her gets rather monotonous. Clear. light air from the East. Colder.
Max 30.1 Min 12.8 Galle and I spent the day at the trapping camp helping put up snow walls. The
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seamstress was told by me not to leave camp but to do certain sewing but as it was getting dark she came to the trapping camp tired out. She said that she wanted to see Crawford & Maurer and say "hello". She evidently has hopes yet of getting a "man" we brought her home on the sled. The sick dog died about 8 a.m. today in violent convulsions, and great care is being taken that no other dogs get around the place where he was tied. Cold, slightly cloudy. Calm
Sunday
Max 14.0 Min 2.2 I spent all day with the team hauling wood at the trapping camp. Galle went to traps but caught nothing. When Galle arose this morning he found that some time during the night the "foolish female" had left (with a lantern) for the other camp. When I got there Crawford and I decided that I would not take her back home on the sled, and that he would not let her in their tent. Crawford and I told her explicitly yesterday not to leave the main camp again, but as she had done so she would either have to walk back or sleep out all night. She came home at 7.30p.m. tired out.